Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

[Robert Marcano]

On 10/04/2011 01:24 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
>
> I am clearly going to have to explain this one more time, forever.
> Let's see if I can't write it authoritatively once and simply answer
> with a URL from here out.  (As always, use of the second person "you"
> herein is plural, not singular.)

....

Thanks for the explanation. This make me remember when everyone was 
using CRT monitors. There wasn't a way to know from the hardware the 
monitor refresh rates, so being careful, OSs defaulted to the lowest 
setting. Why isn't possible to use the 96dpi hardcoded value and provide 
an UI to that shows the hardware provided values? (or obtained using 
those heuristics that sometimes fails), provide an UI action to try it 
and revert if you do not like the results or 10 seconds without an 
answer. At least trying a different DPI setting is not dangerous to the 
hardware than trying a bigger refresh rate on old CRT monitors